When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.